Wallet.



F. E. HOUSE;

WALLET.

- APPLICATION FILED DEO.19, 1912.

1,091,138. 1 Patented Mar. 24, 191 1 2 SHEETS-SHBET 1.

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FRANK E. HOUSE, OF WINTHROP, MASSACHUSETTS.

WALLET.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK E. HoUsH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Winthrop, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusettahave invented'new and useful Improvements in Wallets, of Which the following is a specification.

My invention is a wallet designed to receive photo-graph films, newspaper clippings, or other articles which it is desired to store in orderly fashion.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my wallet in use; Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the index pack, with the closure cover turned in parallel relation, and the index pack ready to be inserted in the cover portion; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the closure cover arranged in crossed position; Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the filled index pack, after its removal from the cover portion, with the closure cover turned in crossed position, ready for folding about the pack; Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing the index pack closed for storing; and Fig. 6 shows the Wallet of Fig. 1, in closed position.

My new wallet is made up of a cover portion and a removable index portion composed of a multiplicity of leaves, bound at one edge and suitably indexed on their upper edges. The cover portion is made up of a suitably hinged strip 1, creased to fold on the lines marked 11. To this is secured a box 2 having upstanding sides 3. The sides 3 stand at a height equal-to the top of the index member 4, which is formed by binding one edge of a pack of sheets of suitable material firmly together, the opposite edges being suitably indexed by figures or letters. To this pack when bound is preferably secured a closure cover 5, 6, substantially as shown in Fig. 2, for a purpose hereinafter to be described, this cover being made of flexible stock and so creased that it may be folded when desired against the side of the pack. The main cover strip 1 is shown as divided by folding creases o-r hinges into three whole and two half flaps marked a, b, c, d, e. The box 2 is preferably mounted and secured upon fiap 0, with its ends provided with upstanding projections 3, the height of the projections 3 corresponding to the length of the flaps b, d, so that when the flaps Z), (Z, are turned up they will cover the front and back of the pack and the flaps a, 6, can be turned over the top and engaged Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 19, 1912.

Patented Mar. 24, 1914. Serial No. 737,766.

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the edges of the flaps a, 6, cl, 6, engaging the ends and sides of the parts 3 to form a firm, right angledbox or cover. The specific arrangement is not of course essential, since the strip 1 could be scored, and the box 2 mounted so that the half flaps would meet upon the front of the box and the top would be covered by a whole flap.

The index pack, as has been said, is made up of a multiplicityof single sheets bound together at one side, which in use is the bottom of the pack. This bottom side is, as is customary, extended by spacing the sheets so that the bottom side is as thick as the body of the leaves will be when extended by the insertion of the articles to be stored. The closure cover is made up of two strips, 5, 6, pivotally connected by an eyelet 55. When the index pack is in the box 2, the strips 5, 6, are arranged in parallel relation, as indicated in Fig. 2. The outer cover 1 and the box 2 with its ends 3 having been secured together, the index pack, with its attached closure cover is forced into the box 2, the bound side being at the bottom, and designed to be of a size to fit the box 2 with a frictional fit.

The index pack it will be observed is forced into the box 2 and obviously, if it is desired, can be removed by pulling it out. When in place however the open sides of the index pack are closed by the upstanding ends 3, so that the contents cannot escape sidewise. These ends 3 also cotiperate with the outer cover 1 to give the closed wallet a firm, rectangular and non-collapsible body and serve also to give a firm interior resistance against which the snap fasteners may be engaged.

When the index pack is filled it is removed from the cover 1, 2, 3, and the closure cover 5, 6, is turned to cross position as shown in Fig. 4, pivoting on the eyelet 55, the bottom of the pack being adhesively fixed to fold 6* of strip 5, fold a) of that strip covering the front of the pack, fold 0 the back, fold d" the top and fold e overlaps the front and engages fold a) by means of the tongue a2 and slot 0%. Fold h of the strip 6 covers the back of the pack, folds g and z the ends and folds f and j overlap on the front and engage by means of the tongue 00 and slot 00 By this arrangement it is possible to have, without undue expense, a substantial cover to receive th'e'material at a'particul'ar time being accumulated and stored, as for example, photographic films, which, when the pack is filled, may be removed and stored, leaving the outer box cover ready to receive an empty index pack for convenient filing of new films, or' to have a previously filled'pack inserted for convenient finding of required films, and this is the preferable form of my device.

When the index pack is in place in the cover as shown in Fig. 1, the closure flaps (Z and 6* of stripfl5 and'z' and j of strip 6 which are at the back of the index pack, are folded backward and their ends inserted in the box 2, in order that they may not project up- Ward or overthe top of the index leaves, in an inconvenient manner.

I claim":

The combination of an outer cover made up of a box' having upstanding ends and an outer strip secured to the box and hinged to fold about it and its ends and an index pack formed of a pack of leaves boundtogethe r at one edge and designed to fit within the box, the upstanding ends closing the side edges of the leaves and the outer stri detachably covering .the upper ends 0? the leaves and the front and back of the box.

Signed by me at Boston, Mass, this 16th day of December, 1912.

FRANK E. HOUSH.

Witnesses: v

JOSEPH T. BRENNAN, MARY A. OBRIEN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Gommissioner'ot Patents, Washington, D. 0. 

